2-069 - Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-based Interventions for at-risk Youth and Families

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

This poster symposium is based on a soon-to-be published special section of Child Development entitled: “Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-based interventions for at-risk Youth and Families.” The goal of this special section was for developmental researchers invested in maximizing the well-being of children and families at risk for maladjustment to provide papers integrating basic and applied, translational research. “At-risk” was defined as the statistically higher odds of showing maladjustment than normative samples of children. Each paper specified key “risk and/or protective” processes that could be targeted for intervention, such as poverty, maltreatment, parental psychopathology, and single motherhood. Common targets of intervention included increasing positive parent-child relationships, parenting skills, caregiver sensitivity, social support, father involvement, and self-efficacy. Examples of some specific interventions recommended were the Supporting Father Involvement program, relational interventions targeting attachment organization, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, In-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and enhanced Triple P – Positive Parenting Program.

The poster symposium will be structured as follows: Chairs will introduce the presenters; co-editors (Presentation.1) will provide a 5-minute overview of the topics to be presented and the overlapping themes that emerged across papers. The audience then will have the opportunity to interact individually with each presenter standing by her poster, followed by 30 minutes of brief integrative presentations by the authors. The Chairs then will lead a discussion (30 minutes) among the presenters and audience particularly focusing on potential costs, barriers, and benefits of widespread implementation and scalability of these programs so as to maximize the greatest public health impact.

Sub Unit

• Prevention and Interventions

Chair

• Judy Garber, Vanderbilt University

Individual Presentations

• In the best interest of the “whole child”: Harnessing developmental science toward maximizing resilience - Presenting Author: Suniya Luthar, Arizona State University; Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University

• Enhancing father involvement in low-income families: A couples group approach to preventive intervention - Presenting Author: Carolyn Pope Cowan, University of California Berkeley; Philip A Cowan, University of California Berkeley; Marsha K Pruett, Smith College; Kyle Pruett, Yale University

• Promoting Strengths and Resiliency in Single Mother Families - Presenting Author: Zoe Ellen Taylor, Purdue University; Rand D. Conger, University of California, Davis Department of Human Ecology & Psychology

• Targeting Parenting in Early Childhood: A Public Health Approach to Improve Outcomes for Children Living in Poverty - Presenting Author: Amanda Sheffield Morris, Oklahoma State University; Lara R Robinson, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Oklahoma State University; Angelika H Claussen, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Sophie A Hartwig, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Amy E Treat, Oklahoma State University

• Evidence-Based Interventions for Depressed Mothers and their Young Children - Presenting Author: Sherryl H. Goodman, Emory University; Judy Garber, Vanderbilt University

• Relational Interventions for Maltreated Children - Presenting Author: Kristin Valentino, University of Notre Dame